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Reds (best thing Nicholson and Beatty ever did)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest (speaking of Nicholson)
Once Upon a Time in America
A Beautiful Mind
Good Will Hunting
Ragtime
Gotta have a John Wayne movie in there.....
Rio Bravo
Count me as one of the people who really don't care all that much about CK. I've seen it. Regardless of it's alleged artistic statement, I just don't care all that much about it.
Yes, someone posted that is was a sled. Apparently that saved me about 3 hours of my time. I guess it's a metaphor for his youth or rosebud could mean something about someone's anatomy. Whatever.
I appreciate you trying to explain why it is the "best" movie out there. However, my question to you is, is there no other movie now that is better? I just hate the title "best", especially when it's too boring for me to be able to make it through the whole movie.
I may be beating the dead horse now, but that's my take. I respect your opinion on it and appreciate you taking the time to banter on the subject.
C'mon, Sheepweasel.
Now that was a cheep shot
I thought I was being clever. :P
-Moo
How about some spaghetti westerns. Hang 'em High rules!
-Moo
Saying something that Beatty did isn't saying much.
Gotta have a John Wayne movie in there.....
If you want Wayne what about
The man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Shootest
The Angel and the Badman
and the John ford Cavalry trilogy of :
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
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It was a metaphor for the happiness of his youth that was torn away from him, a happiness that he searched for his entire life as shown in the movie.
However, my question to you is, is there no other movie now that is better?
Actually I think that Hollywood has lost the art of making good movies. Very few made today would make my keeper list.
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The Terror of Tiny Town
Ducking and running
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Ding! There must be some prize for someone bringing that up in a best movies ever topic!
John Wayne....that gets tough. Good calls on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (not only a good movie but a great song which never appears anywhere at all in the movie but pretty well launched Gene Pitney's career) and the Shootist.
Quiet Man, too.
Not sure what it would be but maybe accepting it isn't a good ideal.
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-It was about my third time watching that I realized, after waking up after the big drunk, in ALL the outsides shots, there is a car/house alarm sounding.
Tremors
-Fred Ward, you gotta love him. "I've got a plan".
Fargo. Raising Arizona. Great.
I'm with the Coen brothers nuts. I've loved anything of theirs I've seen.
I love John Irvings books, too. They've tried to translate them to film, but somehow can't quite pull it off.
Reds is a somewhat non-fictional account of the thwarted socialist movement in this country early last century. Long movie. You, being a literary scholar, will appreciate it. I'm not a big Beatty fan either. He did a great job with this filmm though...writing, directing and starring in it.
Both had great things to offer. That's unusual when a film takes on a book. LOTR did a great job of translating the book, but there is no reason people shouldn't read those books as well. The depth that Tolkkien took those to was incredible.
-Moo
If they had included everything they would have needed to approach the expeience of the books, they would have been about 12 hours long!
I think one of my biggest disappointments is that they cut out Tom Bombadil
Those were the first books that I read that made a HUGE impression on me. I remember sitting in my dad's LaZBoy and getting freaked out reading about the Black Riders. Very immersive and very imaginative. I love those books. :P
-Moo
If you remember the skit, do you remember what Rosebud turned out to be?
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The Great Escape
Das Boot (agree in German with subtitles)
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 and 2
Casablanca
The Caine Mutiny (great book also as were most of Herman Wouk's)
Young Frankenstein .... "What Knockers!!"
Lawrence of Arabia
Certainly NOT a great movie, but still like to catch "The World of Suzie Wong" once in awhile. A very young Nancy Kwan. "Be still my foolish heart."
Deliverance
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2) E.T
3) Gone with the Wind
4) Total Recall
5) The Wizzard of Oz
6) Fritz the Cat
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Ronin - what can you say? Awesome car chases. If you get it on DVD, watch it with the narrative from John Frankenheimer - you'll learn so much about why they did what they did in the movie.
How about movies or scenes in movies that make you cry or choke you up?
I know it's silly, but Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Kahn always gets me.
Give me a minute to compose myself and I'll have some more
Always gets me..
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Everyone should have a friend like Sam.
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Phew...thanks for letting me vent..I feel better now...
I find fantasy worlds quite enjoyable and entertaining. Yeah, I've been accused of looking like I live in one frequently.
I cried watching LOTR - The Two Towers. Cried over three hours of my life wasted (only went to fulfill a family obligation). Bored me to tears.
I'm not much of a movie fan but I like going to movies in other countries, especially Mexico. If it's a Hollywood flick subtitled in Spanish, even better.
One of the best movies I've seen was the Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis. We went to a multiplex in Mazatlan to see it and didn't realize that it was being screened in two theatres. We forgot that long intermissions between reels are common down there and we wondered what happened to the opening credits as we sat down and the movie started.
After 2 minutes we figured out the film and within 20 minutes it was over and I could get back to the beach. That was one of my most enjoyable times in a theater ever. :shades:
Of course, if I know it's just stupid fluff going in, I can enjoy the film for that. You don't need to "figure out" comedies usually, even if you do see the jokes coming.
On the other extreme, I don't care for movies where the plot is so confused that audience is entirely baffled, even after they leave the theater...like "The Good German" with George Clooney.
I'd love to play Whack a Hobbit....I should invent that. There are people who kidnap Lawn Gnomes for ransom (Gnome Liberation Front) after all.
When old Yeller gets shot.
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If you can find it read the book "The Battle for Brazil", it is all about the movie "Brazil" and the fight between Terry Gillian (sp?) and the movie studio that wanted to make many changes including changing the ending to a "happy ending".
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That exact thing makes me be certain to never, ever see a movie that involves a dog unless some trusted person assures me that the dog does not die.
I've never seen Turner and Hooch and never will.
-Moo
And Mice and Men really isn't a tearjerket. It's not sentimental. it is a genuine tragedy on a very large moral scale. It's not just one person's misfortune.
Sentimentality is to emotion is like inflation is to money....the more you pump it up, the less it is worth.
Not overall, no. I think the tragedy part is what really hits me. It is ONE person's misfortune, but it is very applicable to the loss and hopelessness of anyone. I think that's the mark of a great story, anyhow.
There have only been a few stories that hit me with tears. And honestly, I can't remember many of them. I recently watched that movie and it was fresh in my mind.
-Moo
Its been a while since I saw a "Hunchback" movie but don't they always change the ending?
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